RE: [Leica] Suzy Q, again

[Paul Chefurka <Paul_Chefurka@pmc-sierra.com>]

I hope you're snipping a lot of context, Arthur, because if these quotes
accurately reflect Ms. Sontag's impressions of the art, I truly despair.  In
fact I find the thoughts you have quoted to be facile, dismissive and
contemptuous.  If they really reflect her outlook, I may in fact never read
the whole book, because my blood pressure wouldn't take it.  Just these bits
are more enraging than a week-long thread on watches.

If this stuff showed up on a usenet newsgroup, I'd call the post a troll.

Paul

>-----Original Message-----
>From: ARTHURWG@aol.com [mailto:ARTHURWG@aol.com]
>Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2000 3:26 PM
>To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
>Subject: Re: [Leica] Suzy Q, again
>
>
>"There is an agression implicit in every use of the Camera." 
>
>"Recently, photography has become almost as widely practiced 
>an amusement as 
>sex and dancing..." 
>
>"A way of certifying experience, taking photographs is also a 
>way of refusing 
>it-- by limiting experience to a search for the photogenic, by 
>converting 
>experience into an image, a souvenir."
>
>"it would not be wrong to speak of people having a ' compulsion' to 
>photograph: to turn experience itself into a way of seeing."
>
>"Needing to have reality confirmed and experienced enhanced by 
>photographs is 
>an aesthetic consumerism to which everyone is now adicted." 
>
>                                                            
>--Susan Sontag
>Arthur
>